Re: Wondering about Internet/Genie/Compuserve/AOL/Delphi relation

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1994Mar21.202314.17336@chemabs.uucp>, Larry W. Virden writes...
> 
> Are there objections from these services for giving back to the folks
> who primarily exist on the internet?   I mean, there occasionally appear
> things on these services to which I would like to have access, but would
> rather get access from the Internet ftp site.

    There is this hazy (IMHO) concept called "compilation rights".  That
is, I cannot download files off GEnie wholesale and make the same bunch
of files available elsewhere.  I personally cannot see how this can
possibly be enforced, but there you have it.

> If this is no problem, then are there folk out there who are downloading
> things from these services who would be willing to ftp a copy of
> the various games, DAs, etc. (for example sample hypercard gs stacks)
> to the ftp sites?

    Since I'm responsible for compiling the Usenet digests for GEnie and
for anything Internet-related in the A2 and A2Pro Roundtables, I can
tell you that I will *not* be doing a mass transfer of GEnie's Apple II
libraries (which are indeed substantial) to FTP sites.  However, I see
no problem with making available some of the more useful utilities that
appear from time to time in the A2 and A2Pro libraries.  Check the
io.org Apple II FTP site for the latest.
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